have heard my many Sermons on this Subject in London and else where but especially to my Book called TRUTH MAINTAINED made against Mr. Saltmarsh wherein I have heartily to place that first largely and to my power strongly vindicated Non licet Populo renuente Magistratu Reformationem moliri Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 54. This Parliament being very active in matters of Religion the Convocation younger Brother thereunto was little imployed and less regarded Our Author follows this Design of putting matters of Religion into the power of Parliaments though he hath chosen a very ill Medium to conclude the point This Parliament as active as he seems to make it troubled it self so little with matters of Religion that had it done lesse it had done just nothing All that it did was the Repealing of some Acts made in the time of Queen Mary and setling matters in the same State in which she found them at her first coming to the Crown The Common Prayer Book being reviewed and fitted to the use of the Church by some godly men appointed by the Queen alone receiv'd no other confirmation in this present Parliament than what it had before in the last years of King Edward The Supremacy was again restor'd as it had been formerly the Title of Supreme head which seem'd offensive unto many of both Religions being changed into that of Supreme Governor nothing in all this done de novo which could intitle this Parliament to such activity in matters of Religion but that our Author had a minde to undervalue the Convocation as being little imployed and lesse regarded I grant indeed that the Convocation of that year did only meet for forms sake without acting any thing c. Fuller Yea God hath done great things for us already whereof we rejoyce And although the Animadvector is pleased to say That if this Parliament had done lesse it had done just nothing these truly were MAGNALIA so farre as the word is applyable to humane performances Dr. Heylin In the mean time I would fain know our Authors Reason why speaking of the Convocation and the Parliament in the notion of Twins the Convocation must be made the younger Brother Assuredly there had been Convocations in the Church of England some hundreds of years before the name of Parliament had been ever heard of which he that lists to read the collection of Councels published by that learned and industrious Gentleman Sir Henry Spelman cannot but perceive Fuller I confesse Convocations in their general notion more ancient and regular and completely constituted than Parliaments Yet of these Twins I called the Convocation the younger Brother properly enough First Because modern Convocations as modelled since the submission of the Clergy to Henry the eighth are many years junior to Parliaments Secondly The Convocations alwaies began the day after the Parliament the Archbishops and Bishops alwaies attending the King the first day in Parliament Lastly The Parliament hath made a younger Brother of the Convocation And there being a priority in Power he in effect is the Heir and elder Brother who confineth the other to a poor pittance and small portion as our Age can well remember Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 71. This year the spire of Poles steeple covered with lead strangely fell on fire More modestly in this than when he formerly ascribes the burning of some great Abbeys to Lightning from Heaven And so this steeple was both reported and believed to be fired also it being an ordinary thing in our common Almanacks till these latter times to count the time among the other Epoches of Computation from the year that St. Paul-steeple was fired with Lightning But afterwards it was acknowledged as our Author truly notes to be done by the negligence of a Plummer carelesly leaving his Coles therein since which acknowledgement we finde no mention of this accident in our yearly Almanacks But whereas our Author finds no other Benefactors for the repairing of this great Ruine but the Queens bounty and the Clergies benevolence I must needs tell him that these were onely accessories to the principal charge The greatest part hereof or to say better the whole work was by the Queen imposed on the City of London it being affirmed by Iohn Stow that after this mischance the Queens Majesty directed her Letters to the Major willing him to take order for the speedy repairing of the same c. Fuller Non est tanti all this Note The Queen and Clergy are onely mentioned by way of eminence not exclusion of others The Animadvertor commonly layeth it to my charge that in my writing I am injurious to the Church and Clergy and now he is offended with me for giving them too much honour Sure I am Mr. Camden speaking of the repairing of S. Pauls on this occasion ascribes it to the great bounty of the Queen and money gathered of the Churchmen and others where his particular nomination onely of the Queen and Church-men making them paramount Benefactors Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 72. In the Convocation now sitting the nine and thirty Articles were composed agreeing for the main with those set forth in the Reign of King Edward the sixth though in some particulars allowing more liberty to dissenting judgements This is the active Convocation which before I spake of not setâ—ing matters of Religion in the same estate in which they were left by King Edward but altering some Articles expunging others adding some de novo and fitting the whole body of them unto edification Not leaving any liberty to dissenting judgements as our Author would have it but binding men unto the literal and Grammatical sense Fuller But the literal and Grammatical sense is worded in so favourable and receptive terms that two opposite parties both wellâ—skilled in Grammer have with great assurance of successe pleaded them in their defence In such Cases when the Controversie is admissive of a latitude as not necessary to salvation the pious and learned Penners of the Articles though they did not purposely use Cheverel expressions to afford shelter to equivocation yet prudently seeing that all things in the Articles were not of equall concernment and politickly â—ore-seeing men would be divided and differ in their judgements about them selected phrases Grammatically admissive of several senses all consistent with Salvation and would draw their words no closer for fear of strangling tender Consciences Hence is it that in the Question Whether Concupiscence be properly a sin in the Regenerate both parties appeal unto the Article equally perswaded there so finde favour in their several Opinions as indeed like a well drawn Picture it seemeth to Eye them both and yet frown on neither And one may read in the works of King Iames that on this account he highly commendeth the discretion and moderation of the Composers of our Articles Dr. Heylin They had not otherwise attained to the end they aimed at which was ad tollendam opinionum
in the following Parliament we are to follow him to that Parliament for our satisfaction And there we find that Mr. Maynard made a Speech in the Committee of Lords against the Canons made by the Bishops in the last Convocation in which he endeavoured to prove c. Fuller Diogenes being demanded what one should give him to strike on the head as hard as he could Give me sayed he but an Helmet Well fare my Helmet the seasonable interposition of the word ENDEAVOURED which hath secured me from the blowes of the Animadvertor and perchance his hand thereby retunded Besides I have a double Helmet Master now Serjeant Mainard no lesse eminently known for his skill in Law than for his love to the Clergy by pleading so effectually in his success as well as desire for their Tithes Wherefore being weary with this long contest I resolve for a while even to take my naturall rest and will quietly sleep untill Iogged by that which particularly concerneth me Dr. Heylyn Endeavoured to prove that the Clergy had no power to make Canons without common consent in Parliament because in the Saxon's times Lawes and Constitutions Ecclesiasticall had the confirmation of Peers and sometimes of the People to which great Councills our Parliaments do succeed Which Argument if it be of force to prove that the Clergy can make no Canons without consent of the Peers and People in Parliament it must prove also that the Peers and People can make no Statutes without consent of the Clergy in their Convocation My reason is Because such Councels in the times of the Saxons were mixt Assemblies consisting as well of Laicks as of Ecclesiasticks and the matters there concluded on of a mixt nature also Laws being passed as commonly in them in order to the good governance of the Common-wealth as Canons for the regulating such things as concern'd Religion But these great Councels of the Saxons being divided into two parts in the times ensuing the Clergy did their work by themselves without any confirmation from the King or Parliament till the submission of the Clergy to King Henry the Eighth And if the Parliaments did succeed in the place of those great Councells as he saies they did it was because that antiently the Procurators of the Clergy not the Bishops onely had their place in Parliament though neither Peers nor People voted in the Convocations Which being so it is not much to be admired that there was some checking as is said in the second Argument about the disuse of the generall making of such Church-Laws But checking or repining at the proceeding of any Superiour Court makes not the Acts thereof illegall for if it did the Acts of Parliaments themselves would be reputed of no force or illegally made because the Clergy for a long time have checkt and think they have good cause to check for their being excluded Which checking of the Commons appears not onely in those antient Authors which the Gentleman cited but in the Remonstrance tendred by them to King Henry the Eighth exemplified at large in these Animadversions lib. 3. n. 61. But because this being a Record of the Convocation may not come within the walk of a Common Lawyer I shall put him in mind of that memorable passage in the Parliament 51 Edw. 3d. which in brief was this The Commons finding themselves aggrieved as well with certain Constitutions made by the Clergy in their Synods as with some Laws or Ordinances which were lately passed more to the advantage of the Clergy then the Common People put in a Bill to this effect viz. That no Act nor Ordinance should from thenceforth be made or granted on the Petition of the said Clergy without the consent of the Commons and that the said Commons should not be bound in times to come by any Constitutions made by the Clergy of this Realm for their own advantage to which the Commons of this Realm had not given consent The reason of which is this and 't is worth the marking Car eux ne veulent estre obligez a nul de vos Estatuz ne Ordinances faitz sanz leur Assent Because the said Clergy did not think themselves bound as indeed they were not in those times by any Statute Act or Ordinance made without their assent in the Court of Parliament But that which could not be obtain'd by this checking of the Commons in the declining and last times of King Edward 3. was in some part effected by the more vigorous prosecution of King Henry 8. who to satisfie the desires of the Commons in this particular and repress their checkings obtained from the Clergy that they should neither make nor execute any Canons without his consent as before is said so that the Kings power of confirming Canons was grounded on the free and voluntary submission of the Clergy and was not built as the third Argument objecteth on so weak a foundation as the Pope's making Canons by his sole power the Pope not making Canons here nor putting his Prescripts and Letters decretory in the place of Canons but onely as a remedy for some present exigency So that the King's power in this particular not being built upon the Popes as he said it was it may well stand That Kings may make Canons without consent of Parliament though he saith they cannot But whereas it is argued in the fourth place that the clause in the Statute of Submission in which it is said that the Clergy shall not make Canons without the Kings leave doth not imply that by His leave alone they may make them I cannot think that he delivered this for Law and much less for Logick For had this been looked on formerly as a piece of Law the Parliaments would have check'd at it at some time or other and been as sensible of the Kings enchroachments in executing this power without them as antiently some of them had been about the disuse of the like generall consent in the making of them Fuller DORMIT SECURUS Dr. Heylyn Fol. 180. In the next place our Author tells us that Mr. Maynard endeavoured also to prove that these Canons were against the King's Prerogative the Rights Liberties and Properties of the Subject And he saith well that it was endeavoured to be proved and endeavoured onely nothing amounting to a proof being to be found in that which followes It had before been Voted by the House of Commons that the Canons are against fundamentall Laws of this Realm against the Kings Prerogative Property of the Subject the Right of Parliament and do tend to faction and sedition And it was fit that some endeavours should be used to make good the Vote But this being but a generall charge requires a generall answer onely and it shall be this Before the Canons were subscribed they were imparted to the King by the Arch-bishop of Canterbury and by the King communicated to the Lords of the Councill who calling to them the assistance of the Judges and
Thou shalt not have other gods before me and the Animadvertor knoweth well that the Originall importeth Coram me that is Thou shalt have none other in my sight or presence Now for quietnesse sake let the result of this long discourse so far as I can understand be granted him and it amounts to no more then to put the Brittains in the same form with the Grecians instructed by their Druids in the worship of one God as well and as far as the Grecians were in the same Lesson by their Philosophers Now what the Grecians held and did in this point will appear by the practise of the Athenians whose City was the Mistris of Greece Staple of Learning and Palace of Philosophers and how well the Athenians worshipped one God we have from the infallible witness of St. Paul whose spirit was stirred within him whilst he saw the City wholly given to idolatry Whence it will follow that the Brittaines form-fellowes with the Grecians were wholly given to Idolatry which is as much and more then I said before And now the Reader may judge what progress the Animadvertor hath made in confuting what I have written yea less then the Beast Pigritia in Brasil which as he telleth us elsewhere goeth not so far in fourteen daies as one may throw a stone Yea our Adversary hath not gone at all save backward and if he doth not mend his pace it will be late before he commeth to his lodging Here let me mind the Animadvertor that my Church-History thus beginneth That we may the more freely and fully pay the tribute of our thanks to Gods goodness for the Gospell which we now enjoy let us recount the sad condition of the Brittains our Predecessors before the Christian faith was preached unto them If therefore the Animadvertor by his tedious discourse endeavouring to UN-IDOLATRIZE the Brittains as much as he could I say if hereby he hath hindred or lessened any mans paying of his thanks to God he hath done a thankless office both to God and Man therein Dr Heylyn Our Author proceedeth fol. 3. It facilitated the entrance of the Gospell hither that lately the Roman Conquest had in part civilized the South of this Island by transporting Colonies and erecting of Cities there Than which there could not any thing be said more different from the truth of story or from the time of that Conversion which we have in hand performed as all our latter Writers and amongst them our Author himself have affirmed from Gildas who lived in the fourth Century of the Christian Church Tempore summo Tiberii Caesaris toward the latter end of the Reigne of Tiberius Cesar that is to say about thirty seven years after Christs Nativity at what time the Romans had neither erected any one City nor planted any one Colony in the South parts of the Island For though Iulius Cesar in pursuance of his Gallick Conquest had attempted this Island crossed the Thames and pierced as far as Verulamium in the County of the Cattieuchlani now Hartfordshire yet either finding how difficult a work it was like to prove or having business of more moment he gave over the enterprize resting contented with the honour of the first discovery Et ostendisse potiùs quà m trad disse as we read in Tacitus Nothing done after this in order to the Conquest of Brittain untill the time of Claudius Augustus would by no means be perswaded to the undertaking and much less Tiberius in whose last years the Gospell was first preach'd in Brittain as before was said Concilium id Divus Augustus vocabat Tiberius praecipue And though Caligula leaving the honour of this Conquest to his Uncle Claudius who next succeeded in the Empire and being invited into Brittain by a discontented party amongst the Natives reduc'd some part thereof into the form of a Roman Province Of this see Tacitus at large in the life of Agricola By which it will appear most clearly that there was neither City of the Romans erection nor Colony of their plantation till the time of Claudius and consequently no such facilitating of the work by either of those means which our Author dreams of But from the Time proceed we to the Author of this first Conversion of which thus our Author Fuller In the first place know Reader that Mr. Burton in his late learned Notes on Antoninus justifieth that Iulius Cesar did Colonize what ever the Animadvertor saith to the contrary some part of this Land otherwise his whole Conquest would have unraveled after his departure and his Successors had had their work to begin afresh 2ly I say not the first entrance but the Entrance of the Gospell was facilitated by the Roman Conquest The entrance of the Gospell into this Island was so far from being done in an instant or simul semel that it was not res unius seculi the product of one age but was successively done 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at sundry times and in divers manners So that this extensive entrance of the Christian Religion gradually insinuating it self took up a century of years from the latter end of Tiberius and so forwards Christianity entred not into this Island like Lightning but like light None can behold this Essay thereof in the time of Tiberius otherwise then a morning-Star some forty years after the day dawned and lastly under King Lucius that Leuer-Maure or the great light the Sun of Religion may be siad to arise before which time the South of this Island was sufficiently Colonized by the Romans whereby Commerce and Civility ushered Christianity into Brittain Yet to clear my words not from untruth in themselves but mistakes in others and to avoid all appearance of falshood it shall be altered God-willing in the next Edition It facilitated the entrance and propagation of the Gospell here c. Dr. Heylyn Parsons the Iesuite mainly stickleth for the Apostle Peter to have first preached the Gospell here And our Author doth as mainly stickle against it The Reason which induced Parsons so to stickle in it was as our Author thinks and telleth us fol. 4. to infer an Obligation of this Island to the See of Rome And to exempt this Island from that Obligation our Author hath endeavoured to disprove the Tradition Fuller That the Iesuite furiously driveth on that designe appeareth to any that peruse his Works and your Author conceiveth his owne Endeavours lawfull and usefull in stopping his full Carrere and disobliging the Church of England from a Debt as uniustly pretended as vehemently prosecuted Et veniam pro laude petit laudatus abunâ—e Non fastiditus si tuus Author erit Your Author for his praise doth pardon crave If not despis'd his praise enough shall have It is therefore but hard measure for you to require his good intentions if failing in successe with contempt and reproach Dr. Heylyn Whereas indeed St. Peters preaching in this Island if he were the first that preach't here in
dissent from him rendring my reason for the same Dr. Heylin But whereas he tels us in the following words that the name of Puritan in that notion began this year viz. 1564. I fear he hath anticipated the time a little Genebrard a right good Chronologer placing it ortos in Anglia Puritanos about two years after Anno 1566 c. Fuller I answer First Let the Animadvertor keep his fears for me to himself and not be solicitous in my behaâ—f Secondly If the time be anticipated but a little these necessary Animadversions needed not to take notice thereof Thirdly Genebrards placing the beginning of the Name Puritan about two years after intimates a latitude in his Computation Fourthly Genebrard Anno 1566. calleth them ortos but not orientes in Anglia Puritanos And when I speak of the beginning of the name I relate to it rising not risen Fifthly Genebrard is so disaffected to our Religion he is not to be credited taking all implicitly out of rayling Saunders Witnesse this eminent Note amongst the rest Anno 1570. UNCTI in Surria Comitatu Angliae è Calvinii Schola oâ—iuntur qui docent peccare neminem nisi qui veritatem ab ipsis praedicatam non recâ—pit The ANOINTED Scholars of Calvin did rise this year in Surry an English County who teach that every man must sin that will not imbrace their Doctrine all which is a notorious untruth Lastly The Animadvertor cannot justly be angry with me if I antedated the Puritans by two years seeing he findeth the Lineaments of the Puritan Platform in the Reign of King Henry the eighth twenty years at least beâ—ore my mention of them Dr. Heylin But why our Author should call the Bishop of Londons House by the name of the Popes Palace I doe very much wonder unlesse it were to hold conformity with the style of Martin Mar-Prelate and the rest of that Faction Amongst whom nothing was more common than to call all Bishops Petty-Popes and more particularly to call the Archbishop of Canterbury the Pope of Lambeth and the Bishop of London Pope oâ— London But I hope more charitably than so being more willing to impute it to the fault of the Printers than the Pen of our Author c. Fuller It falls out happily for me that Grindal was then Bishop oâ— London one so far from Popery that he is beheld under an opposite notion I wonder the Animadvertor will lay so much weight on a plain mistake of the Presse Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 98. Against covetous Conformists it was provided that no spiritual Person Colledge or Hospital shall let Lease other than for twenty one years or three lives c. No mention in the Statute of Covetous Conformists I am sure of that and therefore no provision to be made against them the Covetous Conformist is our Authors own c. Fuller I say in the same place that in this Parliament Laws were enacted against Poiniards with three Edges Conformists they must needs be who enjoyed so great Church-preferment and Covetous I may call them who made so unreasonable Leases But of this I have largely spoken in my Answer to the Introduction Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 121. These Prophecyings were founded on the Apostles Precept For ye may all Prophesie one by one that all may learn and all be comforted but so as to make it out they were fain to make use of humane prudential additions Not grounded but pretended to be grounded on those words of St. Paul c. Fuller Grounded shall be altered God willing into pretended to be grounded and then I hope no shadow of offence Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 135. A loud Parliament is alwaies attended with a silent Convocation as here it came to passe The Activity of the former in Church matters lâ—st the latter nothing to doe A man would think by this that the Parliament of this year being the 23 of the Quâ—en had done great â—eats in matters of Religion as making new Articles of Faith or confirming Canons or something else of like importance c. Fuller It lyeth not in the Power of Parliament to make new ARTICLES of FAITH nor did they ever pretend unto it Nor lyeth it in the Power of the Church to make any new ARTICLES Canons they may make for the Descipline and may declare and publish Articles of faith But God alone in Scripture hath made them to which man under an heavy curse may make no Addition Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 187. That since the High Commission and this Oath it is that ex officio which he meaneth were taken away by the Act of Parliament it is to be hoped that if such swearing were so great a grievance nihil analogum nothing like unto it which may amount to as much shall hereafter be substituted in the room thereof What could be said more plain to testifie his disaffections one way and his zâ—al another The High-Commission and the Oath reproached as Grievances because the greatest â—urbs of the Puritan party and the strongest Bulwarks of the Church a congratulation to the times for abolishing both though as yet I finde no Act of Parliament against the Oath except it be by consequence and illation onely and finally a hope exprest that the Church never shall revert to her former power in substituting any like thing in the place thereof by which the good people of the Land may be stopt in their way to the fifth Monarchy so much sought after And yet this does not speak so plain as the following passage Fuller God restore the Church in his good time to her just rights and give her wisdome moâ—e raâ—ely to use it I am â—oâ— no fift Monarchy or Anarchyâ—heâ— â—heâ— but desire from my heart that no such analogical Oath may be offered to me and let the Animadvertor if desirous thereof have it to himself and much good may it doe him Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 193. Wits will be working and such as have a Satyrical vein cannot better vent it than in lashing of sin This spoken in defence of those scurrilous Libels which Iob Throgmorton Penry Fenner and the rest of the Puritan Rabble published in print against the Bishops Anno 1588. thereby to render them ridiculous both abroad and at home Fuller I am most disingeniously dealt with by the Animadvertor obtruding on me such words In defence I defie it these me words immediatly following But 〈…〉 and devouâ— sort of men even of such as were no great friends to the 〈◊〉 upon solemn debaâ—e then resolved I speak on certain knowledge from the mouthes of such whom I must believe that for many foul falshoods therein suggestâ—d altogether â—â—â—eseeming a pious spirit to print publish or with pleasure peruse which â—â—posed true both in matter and measure rather conceal than discover The best of men being so conscious of their own badnesse that they are more carefull to wash their own faces than
in Hampton-Court Conference p. 9. et sequentibus violently prosecuteth Mr. Fuller unto his death in Prison p. 55 56. ¶ 29 30. his death 34. vindicated from cruelty covetousness and Popish inclinations 44 45 46. his crossing a Court project 47. BANGOR the Monks therein massacred b. 2. ¶ 9. Peter BARO why leaving his Professours place Hist. of Cam. p. 125. ¶ 21. different judgements about his departure ¶ 22. William BARRET Fellow of Cajus Coll. his solemn recantation Hist. of Cam. p. 150. BARDS their powerfull practices on the Pagan Britans Cent. 1. ¶ 4. BARNWELL nigh Cambridge the Original of Midsummer fair therein Hist. of Cam. p. 3. ¶ 9. a Priory therein founded by Paine Peverell p. 7. ¶ 16. BASIL Councill English Ambassadours sent thither b. 4. p. 178. observations on their Commission p. 179 180. John BASTWICK his accusation b. 11. p. 151. ¶ 58. his plea 152. ¶ 64. his speech on the Pillory p. 155. ¶ 71. BATTEL ABBEY founded by King Will. the Conquerour b. 3. ¶ 1. the large Priviledges thereof ibidem and ¶ 15. Thomas BECKET b. 3. p. 32. ¶ 57. Arch-bishop of Canterb. 58. stubborn in defending the Clergy 59 c. slain by 4 Knights in his own Church ¶ 66 67. the great superstition at his shrine p. 36. ¶ 70. Rob. BEALE Clark of the Councill zealous against Bishops b. 9. p. 47. Arch-bishop Whitgift complains of his insolent carriage ibidem BEDE though sent for went not to Rome C. 8. ¶ 15. yet probably went out of his Cell ¶ 16. why sur-named VENERABLE ¶ 17. the last blaze going out of the Candle of his life ¶ 18. BENNET COLL. in Cambridge the foundation thereof Hist. of Cam. p 43 44 c. Archb. Parker a paramount benefactor thereunto p. 46. ¶ 11. BENEDICTINE Monks b. 6. p. 266. ¶ 2. most ancient of all orders in England p. 267 268. BERKLEY Nuns all with child at once C. 11. ¶ 19. and b. 6. p. 301. ¶ 2. BERKLEYS their Armes relating to their service in the Holy Land b. 11. p. 43. ¶ 23. their great Benefaction to Abbeys Hist. of Abb. p. 326. sers by their dâ—ssolution 327. The L. BERKLEY Patron to John de Trevisa b. 4. p. 151. ¶ 43. at whose command be translated the Bible into English ¶ 44. BERTHA the Christian Wife of King Ethelbert as yet a Pagan a great Promotresse of Religion b. 2. C. 6. ¶ 9. St. John of BEVERLEY his Miracles C. 8. ¶ 11. Theodorus BEZA his letter to Mr. Travers to crave contribution for the City of Geneva b. 9. p. 136 137. why coldly resented ibid. BIBLE three severall Translations thereof b. 7. p. 387. a fourth and best by the appointment of King James b. 10. p. 45 c. Vide Translatours BIRINUS converts the West-Saxons C. 7. ¶ 65. breaketh his promise yet keepeth it ¶ 66. made Bishop of Dorchester ¶ 67. BISHOPS their judisdictions first severed from the Sheriffs b. 3. p. 5. ¶ 10. BISHOPS in the late long Parliament being charged with a Premunire for making the late Canons b. 11. p. 183. ¶ 6. legally defend themselves ¶ 7. acquit themselves from Feculencie of Extraction wherewith a Lord aspersed them ¶ 8 9. symptomes of their dying power in Parliament p. 184. ¶ 10. being petitioned against p. 185. ¶ 12. and assaulted ¶ 13. twelve of them subscribe and present a protest p. 186. ¶ 16. for which they are imrâ—soned p. 188 ¶ 18. enlarged on bayle p. 196. ¶ 34. BISHOPRICKS when and why removed from small Towns to great Cities b. 3. ¶ 21. Five on the destruction of Abbies erected by King Henry the eighth b. 6. p. 338. ¶ 3. BLACK-FRIERS the dolefull downfall or fatall Vespers thereof b. 10. p. 102. ¶ 29 30 c. Q. Anna BOLLEN hath amatorious Letters written unto her from King Henry the eighth b. 5. p. 175 ¶ 49. preserved as some say in the Vatican ibidem her character p. 206. ¶ 20. solemnly divorced from King Henry the eighth p. 207. ¶ 2. Robert BOLTON an eminent Divine his death b. 11. p. 143. ¶ 25. EDMUND BONNER Bishop of London begins to bonner it b. 5. p. 231. ¶ 19. deprived under Ed. 6. b. 7. p. 414. his cruell articles Hâ—st of Walth p. 18. whom all generations shall call Bloudy b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 11. why imprisoned in the Marshalsey b. 9. ¶ 17. traverseth a suite with Horn Bishop of Winchester S. 4. ¶ 1. his Counsells plea in his behalf ¶ 2 3. 4. A drawn Batel betwixt them occasioned by a provisoe in a new Statute ¶ 7. BONNES HOMMES why so called b. 6. p. 273 ¶ 24. Rich Eremites in pretended povertie ¶ 25. BOOKS embezeled at the dissolution of Abbies b. 6. p. 334. to the great losse of learning ibidem BOOKS preparatory to reformation set forth by King Henry the eighth b. 7. p. 375. Gilb. BOURN Bâ—shop of Bath and Wells why milde in the dayes of Q. Mary b. 8. S. 2. ¶ 3. his death b. 9. p. 96. ¶ 26. Theoph. BRAD BURN his Sabbatarian fancies b. 11. p. 144. ¶ 32. Thomas BRAD WARDINE a great Schoolman C. 14. p. 98. ¶ 23. his just praise ibidem afterwards Arch-bishop of Canterbury BRANDONS Brothers successively Dukes of Suffolk die of the sweating sicknesse Hist. of Cam. p. 128. ¶ 70. Bishop Parkhurst his Epitaph on them ibidem Thomas BRIGHTMAN his birth breeding b. 10. p. 49. ¶ 12. preferment ¶ 13. writings ¶ 14. good life ¶ 15. and sudden death ¶ 16 17. BRITANS their dolefull case whilst Pagans C. 1. ¶ 1. their principall Idols ¶ 2. in vain they crave help of the Roman Emperour against the invasion of the Picts C. 4. ¶ 22. and C. 5. ¶ 14.15 BRITAIN the causes hastning the Conversion thereof before other Countries nearer Palestine C. 1. ¶ 6. why the first Planters of Christianity therein are unknown ¶ 8. not beholden to Rome for her first Preachers ¶ 18. not divided into five Roman Provinces as Giraldes Cambrensis mistakes untill the time of Flavius Theodosiâ—s C. 2. ¶ 10. Christianity continued therein after the death of King Lucius C. 3. ¶ 2. by the Testimony of Gildas Tertullian and Origen ¶ 3. in defiance of Dempster a detracting writer ibid. Why so little left of the primitive Church-History thereof ¶ 6. and C. 4. ¶ 11. BRITISH CLERGIE refuse submission to the Pope of Rome C. 7. ¶ 3. the Dialogue betwixt them and an Anchoret ¶ 6. BRITISH LANGUAGE the commendation thereof C. 7. ¶ 17. vindicated from causlesse cavils ¶ 18. Robert BROWN his gentile Extraction b. 9. p. 166. ¶ 2. deserted by his own Father p. 167. his opinions p. 168. spared when his Followers were executed ¶ 45. the odd occasion of his imprisonment and death ¶ 46. BRUXELS Benedictine rich Nunnery for English Gentle-women with good portions b. 6. p. 363. Martine BUCER called to Cambridge History of Camb. p. 128. ¶ 32 33 34. the various dates of his death p. 130. ¶ 37. belyed
will acknowledge the common and constant custome in such cases I could instance in many more it being no discretion to play out all I have at once but to keep a Reserve in my hand in case which God forefend I should be provoked to another Answer Dr. Heylyn But nothing does more evidently discover his unfaithfull dealing then his report of the proceedings in the Isle of Wight between his Majesty and the long-Parliament Divines of which he tells us Lib. 11. fol. 235. That his Majesty in the last Paper which he sent them acknowledged their great pains to inform his Iudgement according to their perswasions and also took especial notice of their Civilities of the Application both in the beginning and body of their Reply and having cleer'd himself from some mis-understanding about the Writ of Partition which they speak of puts an end to the businesse The man who reads this passage cannot choose but think that his Majesty being vanquisht by the Arguments of the Presbyterians had given over the cause and therefore as convicted in his Conscience rendreth them thanks for the Instruction which he had received and the Civilities they used towards him in the way thereof But he that looks upon his Majestie 's last Paper will find that he had Learnedly and Divinely refel'd all their Arguments And having so done puts them in mind of three questions which are propos'd in his former Paper acknowledged by themselves to be of great importance in the present controversie without an Answer whereunto his Majesty declared that he would put an end to that conference It not being probable as he told them that they should work much upon his Iudgement whilst they are fearfull to declare their own nor possible to relieve his conscience but by a free declaring of theirs But they not able or not daring for fear of displeasing their great Masters to return an Answer to those Questions his Majesty remain'd sole Master of the field a most absolute Conquerour For though the first blow commonly does begin the Quarrel it is the last blow always that gets the Victory But Regium est cum benefeceris malè audire It hath been commonly the fortune of the greatest Princes when they deserve best to be worst reported Fuller Here I will truely acquaint the Reader with the State of this Matter The posting Press which with the Time and Tide will stay for no man mistaking my Copy compleat and not attending my coming to London that morning from Waltham clapt it up imperfect I must therefore deservedly take all the blame and shame thereof on my self and here in this Sheet do publick-pennance for the same promising amendment to the full God willing in the next Edition Dr. Heylyn Nor deals he better with the Church then he does with the King concealing such things as might make for her justification and advocating for such things as disturb her order In the last Book we find him speaking of some heats which were rais'd in the Church about placing the Communion-Table Altar-wise and great fault found for the want of Moderation in those Men who had the managing of that business But he conceals his Majesties Determination in the Case of St. Gregories Novemb. 3. 1633. By which all Bishops and other Ordinaries were incouraged to proceed therein and consequently those of inferiour rank to defend their actings Fuller I have not full twenty Lines on the whole Subject being loath to enlarge on so odious a difference sopited in good measure and as I durst not totally omit so I passed it over with all possible brevity Dr. Heylyn The Chappel of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge is built North and South contrary to the usage of the primitive times and the Church of England with which King Iames being made acquainted he answered as our Author tels us That it was no matter how the Chappel stood so the heart stood aright Which Tale being told by him and believed by others populum qui sibi credit habet Ovid. in Ep. Hysiphil as he is like enough to find many Believers farewell to all external Reverence in the Service of God What need we trouble our selves or others with standing kneeling bowing in the acts of Worship it is no matter in what posture the Body be so the Heart be right Fuller The Speech of K. Iames was no Tale but a Truth when he did not exclude bodily reverence but prefer Soul sincerity in divine Service Parallel unto those Scripture-Instances Psalm 51.26 for thou desirest no Sacrifice that is thou wouldest them not comparatively to cordial Contrition 1 Pet. 4 3. speaking of good women whose adorning let it not be that outward of playting the hair viz. not chiefly therein to the neglecting of inward holiness Nor is the Speech inductive of corporal Irreverence if believed seeing a Mans body may and ought easily quickly and cheaply be contrived into standing bowing kneeling when it requires time and expence to take down and re-build a Chappel which would cost the Colledge five hundred Pounds at the least Dr. Heylyn What need we put our selves or others to the charge of Surplices and Hoods of Gowns and Cassacks in the officiating of Gods Service It is no matter in what habit the Body be so the heart be right There is another Chappel in Cambridge which was never consecrated whether a Stable or a Dormitory is all one to me At which time when some found themselves grieved our Author tells them This others of us great Learning and Religion himself especially for one dare defend that the continued Series of Divine Duties publickly practised for more then thirty years without the least check or controul of those in authority in a place set apart to that purpose doth sufficiently consecrate the same Stables and Barns by this Argument shall in some tract of time become as sacred as our Churches Fuller Had I lived in Sidney Colledge when that Dormitory was first used for a Chappel I would have advised and in my Sphere advanced its consecration accounting the Omission to fall under just reproof But seeing it hath been so long omitted I now conceive it hath no need of Consecration seeing though never solemnly and formally dedicated to Divine Service by the Ordinary or one deputed by him yet hath it had a tacite interpretative Consecration and thereby hath contracted a relative Sacrednesse By the same Proportion it is that Utensils long used in a Family to most civill and generous imployment by degrees acquire to themselves the Reputation in the Apostle's language of vessels of honour as being opposed to such vessels imployed in sordid though necessary Service and of the same metal and matter I doubt not but if this place used for a Chappel now about a Jubilee of years should be turned to a Stable the Animadvertor would behold it and justly too as a piece of Prophanation and this intimates a Sacrednesse therein It is mainly material that Bishop Andrews of Ely
certainly before the Statute of Praemunire for that the whole Clergy in their Convocation should publiquely declare and avow a notorious falshood especially in a matter of fact is not a thing to be imagined I must confesse my self to be at a losse in this intricate Labyrinth unless perhaps there were some critical difference in those elder times between a Synod and a Convocation the first being call'd by the Arch-bishops in their several and respective Provinces as the necessities of the Church the other only by the King as his occasion and affairs did require the same But whether this were so or not is not much material as the case now stands the Clergie not assembling since the 25 of King Henry the eighth but as they are convocated and convened by the Kings Writ only I only add that the time and year of this submission is mistook by our Author who placeth it in 1533. whereas indeed the Clergy made this acknowledgement and submission in their Convocation Anno 1532. though it pass'd not into an Act or Statute till the year next following Well then suppose the Clergy call'd by the Kings Authority and all their Acts and Constitutions ratified by the Royals assent are they of force to binde the Subject to submit and conform unto them Not if our Author may be judge for he tels us plainly Fol. 191. That even such Convocations with the Royal assent subject not any for recusancie to obey their Canons to a civil penalty in person or property until confirmed by Act of Parliament I marvel where our Author took up this opinion which he neither findes in the Registers of Convocation or Records of Parliament Himself hath told us fol. 190. that such Canons and Constitutions as were concluded on in Synods or Convocations before the passing of the Statute of Praemunire were without any further Ratification obligatory to all subjected to their jurisdiction And he hath told us also of such Convocations as had been called between the passing of the Statute of Praemunire and the Act for Submission that they made Canons which were binding although none other than Synodical Authority did confirm the same Upon which premisses I shall not fear to raise this Syllogism viz. That power which the Clergy had in their Convocations before their submission to the King to binde the Subject by their Canons and Constitutions without any further ratification than own Synodical Authority the same they had when the Kings power signified in his Royal assent was added to them but the Clergy by our Authors own confession had power in their Convocations before their submission to the King to bind the Subject by their Canons and Constitutions without any further ratification than their own Synodical Authority Ergo they had the same power to bind the Subjects when the Kings power signified by the Royal assent was added to them The Minor being granted by our Author as before is shewed the Major is onely to be proved And for the proof hereof I am to put the Reader in minde of a Petition or Remonstrance exhibited to the King by the House of Commons Anno 1532. in which they shewed themselves agrieved that the Clergy of this Realm should act Authoriâ—atively and Supremely in the Convocations and they in Parliament do nothing but as it was confirmed and ratified by Royal assent By which it seems that there was nothing then desired by the House of Commons but that the Convocation should be brought down to the same level with the Houses of Parliament and that their Acts and Constitutions should not binde the Subject as before in their Goods and Possessions until they were confirmed and ratified by the Regal Power The Answer unto which Remonstrance being drawn up by Dr. Gardiner then newly made Bishop of Winchester and allowed of by both Houses of Convocation was by them presented to the King But the King not satisfied with this Answer resolves to bring them to his bent lest else perhaps they might have acted something to the hindrance of his divorce which was at that time in agitation and therefore on the tenth of May he sends a Paper to them by Dr. Fox after Bishop of Hereford in which it was peremptorily required That no Constitution or Ordinance shall be hereafter by the Clergy Enacted Promulged or put in Execution unlesse the Kings Highnesse do approve the same by his high Authority and Royal assent and his advice and favour be also interponed for the execution of every such Constitution among his Highnesse Subjects And though the Clergy on the receipt of this paper remov'd first to the Chappel of St. Katherines and after unto that of St. Dunstan to consult about it yet found they no Saint able to inspire them with a resolution contrary to the Kings desires and therefore upon the Wednesday following being the fifteenth of the same Moneth they made their absolute submission binding themselves in Verbo Sacerdotii not to make or execute any Canons or other Synodical Constitutions but as they were from time to time enabled by the Kings Authority But this submission being made unto the King in his single person and not as in conjunction with his Houses of Parliament could neither bring the Convocation under the command of Parliaments nor render them obnoxiâ—us to the power thereof as indeed it did not But to the contrary hereof it is said by our Author that Fol. 194. He viz. the King by the advice and consent of his Clergy in Convocation and great Councel in Parliament resolved to reform the Church under his inspection from grosse abuses crept into it To this I need no other Answer than our Author himself who though in this place he makes the Parliament to be joyned in Commission with Convocation as if a joynt Agent in that great businesse of Reforming the Church yet in another place he tels us another tale For fol. 188. It will appear saith he and I can tell from whom he saith it upon serious examination that there was nothing done in the Reformation of Religion save what was acted by the Clergy in their Convocations or grounded on some Act of theirs precedent to it with the Advice Counsel and Consent of the Bishops and most eminent Church-men confirmed upon the Postfact and not otherwise by the Civil Sanction according to the usage of the best and happiest times of Christianity So then the Reformation of the Church was acted chiefly by the King with the advice of the Clergy in their Convocation the confirmation on the post-fact by the King in Parliament and that by his leave not in all the Acts and Particulars of it but in some few onely for which consult the Tract entituled The Way and Manner of the Reformation of the Church of England Now as our Author makes the Parliament a joynt Assistant with the King in the Reformation so he conferreth on Parliaments the Supreme Power of ratifying and confirming all Synodical Acts. Fol. 199. The
Reformation in the Reign of King Edward more perfect than what was afterwards Let us make us a Captain and return unto Egypt I have too much advantage in my own hand and a principle in my bosome will not give me leave to make use thereof to the utmost Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 404. At last the great Earl of Warwick deserted his Chaplain in open field to shift for himself Indeed he had higher things in his head than to attend such trifles A man may easily discern a Cat by her Claw and we may finde as easily by be scratches of our Authors Pen to what party in the Church he stands most inclined He had before declared for the Dominicans and Rigid Calvinists in some points of Doctrine and now declares himself for the Non-Conformists in point of Ceremonie He had not else called the Episcopal Ornaments particularly the Rochet Chimere and Square-cap by the name of trifles such trifles as were not worth the contending for if Resolute Ridley had been pleased to dispense therein c. Fuller I say not that they were trifles but that Iohn Dudley Earl of Warwick afterwards Duke of Northumberland counted them so in respect to his high designes to the Crown yea it is more than suspicious that his ambition esteemed greater matters than Ceremonies meer trifles even Religion it self which he so often changed If the Cat hath put in her claw let her put in her whole foot I conceive such vestments comparatively trifles as to things necessary to salvation And thus I prove it I dare wager with the Animadvertor That take the Clergy of England as constituted 1640 that three parts of four did not know what a CHIMERE was Nor is this any diminution to their Learning and Religion seeing they were not bound to take cognisance thereof And therefore I beleeve one may safely call it a trifle without the knowledge of which word and what was meant thereby so many flocks of pious and learned Shepheards have gone to Heaven As for the Animadvertors additory Note which followeth concerning the singing of Psalmes in Churches I am not concerned therein Nor will I here insert his Instances of some fortunate Subjects who married Queens seeing I say not alwaies but often such matches prove unprosperous Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 421. This barren Convocation is intituled the Parent of those Articles of Religion fourty two in number which are printed with this Preface Articuli de quibus in Synodo Londinensi c. Our Author here is guilty of a greater crime than that of Scandalum Magnatum making King Edward the sixth of pious memory no better than an impious and leud Impostor For if the Convocation of this year were barren as he saith it was it could neither be the Parent of those Articles nor of the short Catechism which was printed with them countenanced by the Kings Letters Patents prefixt before it c. Fuller Here is an high charge indeed I believeâ—hat â—hat I am generally believed to have as high a reverence for the Memory of King Edward as the Animadvertor himself The Journals of the Convocation in this Kings Reign I have carefully perused which aâ—e no better than blanck paper containing onely the names of the Members therein daily meeting without any matter of moment yea any matteâ— at all Registred to be performed by them But I wholy refer my self to what I have written in my Church-History of this hard Subject making it there as plain as I could which the Animadvertor hath a mind again to involve and perplex THE EIGHTH BOOK The Reign of Queen Mary Dr. Heylin WE next proceed unto the short but troublesome Reign of Queen Mary in which the first thing that occurs is Fol. 1. But the Commons of England who for many years together had conn'd Loyalty by-heart out of the Statute of the succession were so perfect in their Lesson that they would not be put out of it by this new started design In which I am to note these things first that he makes the Loyaly of the Commons of England not to depend upon the primogeniture of their Princes but on the Statute of Succession and then the object of that Loyalty must not be the King but the Act of Parliament by which they were directed to the knowledge of the next successor and then it must needs be in the power of Parliaments to dispose of the Kingdome as they pleas'd the Peoples Loyalty being tyed to such dispositions c. Fuller I make not the loyalty of the Commons to depend on but to be directed by the Statute of Succession In such Intricacies it was good to have such a Guide to lead mens Judgements in the right And though some male-contents started from their Loyalty the Generality of the Commons of England kept constant unto it Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 11. Afterwards Philpot was troubled by Gardiner for his words spoken in the Convocation In vain did he plead the priviledge of the place commonly reputed a part of Parliament I cannot finde that the Convocation at this time nor many yeares before this time was commonly reputed as a part of the Parliament c. Fuller I onely say that Mr. Philpot pleaded it and that in vaine that it was so reputed as may plainly appear in Mr. Fox so that my words are liable to no just exception Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 27. The Letany Surplice and other Ceremonies in Service and Sacraments they omitted both as superfluous and superstitious Our Author speaks this of the Schismaticall Congregation at Franckford who turn'd the Publique Church Liturgy quite out of their Church fashioning to themselves a new forme of Worship which had no warrant and foundation by the Lawes of this Realm And first saith he the Letany Surplice and other Ceremonies they omitted both as superfluous and supersticious Superfluous and supersticious in whose opinion In that of the Schismaticks at Franckford our Authors or in both alike Most probable in our Authors as well as theirs for otherwise he would have added some note of qualifications c. Fuller This note might well have been spared I appeal to such as knew my conformity in the Colledge Chappel Country Parishes and Cathedrall of Sarum to be my Cumpurgators in this unjust accusation Dr. Heylin Thirdly having laid down an abstract of the form of worship contriv'd by the Schismaticks at Franckford he honoureth them with no lower Title than that of Saints and counts this liberty of deviating from the Rules of the Church for a part of their happinesse For so it followeth fol. 28. This faith he is the Communion of Saints who never account themselves peaceably possest of any happinesse untill if it be in their power they have also made their fellow-sufferers partakers thereof If those be Saints who seperate themselves schismatically from their Mother Church and if it be a happinesse to them to be permitted so to doe our
Author hath all the reason in the world to desire to be admitted into their Communion and be made partaker of that happinesse which such Saints enjoy c. Fuller If God were not more mercifull unto us than we are charitable one to another what would become of us all I humbly conceive that these Exiles though I will not advocate for their carriage in all particulars had more liberty in modeling their own Church than such as live in England under a setled Government commanded by Authority Schismatick in my minde is too harsh for such who fled and suffered for their conscience However I conceive a Saint-ship not inconsistent with such Schismaticalnesse God graciously on their general repentance forgiving them their fault herein Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 39. Trinity Colledge built by Sir Thomas Pope I shall not derogate so much from Sir Thomas Pope as our Author doth from Trinity Colledge naming no Bishop of this House as he doth of others He tells us that he liv'd in this University about 17 weeks and all that time Dr. Skinner the Bishop of Oxford liv'd there too Dr. Wright the Bishop of Liechfield probably was then living also for he deceased not till after the beginning of the year 1643. but he living at that time in his own House of Ecclesal Castle Both of them Members of this Colledge and therefore worthily deserving to have found some place in our Authors History And because our Author can finde no learned Writers of this Colledge neither I will supply him with two others â—n that kinde also The first whereof shall be Iohn Selden of the Inner Temple 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that renown'd Humanitian and Philologer sometimes a Commoner of this House and here initiated in those Studies in which he afterwards attain'd to so high an eminence The second William Chillingworth an able and accute Divine and once a Fellow of this Colledge whose Book intituled The Religion of Protestants a safe way to Salvation written in defence of Dr. Potters Book called Charity mistaken commended by our Author Lib 3. fol. 115. remains unanswered by the Iesuites notwithstanding all their brags before-hand to this very day Which Book though most ridiculously buried with the Author at Arundel get thee gon thou accursed Book c. by Mr. Francis Cheynel the usu fructuary of the rich Parsonage of Petworth shall still survive unto the world in its own value when the poore three-penny commodities of such a sorry Haberdasher of Small-weares shall be out of credite Of this Pageant see the Pamphlet call'd Chillingworthi Novissima printed at London Anno 1644. Fuller If the Animavertor had written an History of Cambridge perchance he would have made as many and great Omissions I have craved solem pardon of the Reader when such failings should occur Church History Book 3. pag. 67. I humbly request the Antiquaries of their respective foundations best skilled in their own worthy Natives to insert their own observations which if they would restore unto me against the next Edition of this work if it be thought worthy thereof God shall have the Glory they the publick thanks and the world the benefit of their contributions to my endeavours Bishop Wright is entred in where he ought a Warden of Wadham the rest shall be inserted in the next Edition with my worthy friend Mr. Gilbert Ironside of the same foundation Mr. Cheynel is now rather the object of the Animadvertors prayer and pittie than of his Anger Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 41. But now it is gone let it go it was but a beggerly Town and cost England ten times yearly more than it was worth in keeping thereof Admit it be so yet certainly it was worth the keeping had it cost much more The English while they kept that Town had a dore open into France upon all occasions and therefore it was commonly said that they carried the Keyes of France at their Girdles c. Fuller The Animadvertor might understand my meaning even to make the best of a bad matter when it cannot be helped A KEY falleth under a double valuation one for the intrinsicall works from the weight thereof in Metal which is very inconsiderable The other from the use thereof and thus it 's price riseth or falleth as it openeth to more or less treasure Calis I confesse in the second consideration was a place of main importance yet indeed it cost a vast expence in keeping it as by a Book in the Exchequer which some moneths since I perused doth appear the charge amounting to an innumerable Sum at the rate of Money in that Age. THE NINTH BOOK Containing the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Dr. Heylin THe short Reigns of King Edward the sixth and Queen Mary being briefly past over by our Author he spends the more time in setting out the affairs of the Church under Queen Elizabeth not so much because her Reign was long but because it was a busie Age and full of Faction To which Faction how he stands affâ—cted he is not coy to let us see on all occasions giving us in the very first entrance this brief but notable Essay viz. Fol. 51. Idolaty is not to be permitted a moment the first minute is the fittest to abolish it all that have power have right to destroy it by that grand Charter of Religion whereby every one is bound to advance Gods glory And if Sovereigns forget no reason but Subjects should remember their duty Our Author speaks this in behalf of some forward Spirits who not enduring the lazinesse of Authority in order to the great work of Reformation fell before hand to the beating down of superstitious Pictures and Images And though some others condemned their indiscretion herein yet our Author will not but rather gives these reasons for their justification 1. That the Popish Religion is Idolatry 2. That Idolatry is to be destroyed by all that have power to doe it 3. Which is indeed the main that if the Sovereigns do forget there is no reason but Subjects should remember their duty This being our Authors Master-piece and a fair ground-work for Seditious and Rebellious for the times ensuing I shall spend a little the more time in the examination of the propositions as before we had them c. Fuller The Animadvertor hath dealt most unfairly with me in citing by the halfs what I have written and leaving out what immediatly followed and what he ought to have inserted viz. For after I had presented the Judgement of these rigid and violent Hotspurs I subjoyned as followeth in confutation of their Extravagancies But others condemned their indiscretion herein for though they might reform the private persons and families and refrain to communicate in any outward Act contrary to Gods word yet publick reformation belonged to the Magistrate and a good deed was by them ill done for want of a calling to doe it I appeal to such who knew me in the Universitie to those that
busie to throw dirt on others Any man may be witty in a biting way and those who have the dullest brains have commonly the sharpest teeth to that purpose But such caâ—nal mirth whilest it tickleth the flesh doth wound the soul. And which was the 〈◊〉 these baâ—â— Books would give a great advantage to the General foe and Papists would make too much uâ—e thereof against Protestant Religion especially seeing an Archangel thought himself too good to bring and Satan not bad enough to have railing speeches brought against him Reader what could I have written more fully and freely in the cordial detestation of such abhominal Libels Dr. Heylin For if our Authors rule be good fol. 193. That the fault is not in the Writer if he truly cite what is false on the credit of another they had no reason to examine punctually the truth of that which tended so apparently to the great advantage of their cause and party c. Fuller I say again the Writer is faultless who truly cites what is false on the CREDIT of another alwayes provided that the other who is quoted hath Credit and be not a lying Libeller like these Pasauls If this Rule be not true the Animadvertor will have an hard task of it to make good all in his Geography on his own knowledge who therein hath traded on trust as much as another Dr. Heylin But I am weary and ashamed of raking in so impure a kennel and for that cause also shall willingly pass over his apology for Hacket that blasphemous wretch and most execrable Miscreant justly condemned and executed for a double Treason against the King of Kings in Heaven and the Queen on earth Fuller I appeal to the Reader whether I have not in my Church History wrote most bitterly and deservedly against Him only I took occasion by Hackets badness to raise our thankfulness to God If my meat herein please not the Animadvertors pallat let him leave it in the Dish none shall eat thereof against their own stomacks for fear of a surfeit Dr. Heylin Of whom he would not have us think fol. 204. that he and his two Companions his two Prophets for so they called themselves were not worse by nature than all others of the English Nation the natural corruption in the hearts of others being not less headstrong but more bridled And finally that if Gods restraining grace be taken from us we shall all run unto the same excess of Riot Which Plea if it be good for Hacket will hold good for Iudas and pity it is that some of our fine wits did never study an apology for him c. Fuller Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 214. At Antwerp he was ordained Minister by the Presbytery there and not long after that he was put in Orders by the Presbytery of a forain Nation Here have we Ordination and putting into Orders ascribed to the Presbytery of Antwerp a Mongrel company consisting of two blew Aprons to each Cruel night cap and that too in such positive terms and without any the least qualification that no Presbyterian in the pack could have spoke more plainly c. Fuller It is better to weare a Cruel Night-cap than a cruel heart causelesly cavilling at every man Mr. Travers was ordained Minister or Priest by the Presbytery of Antwerp and never had other Ordination I only relate that it was so de facto and appeal to the Reader whether my words import the least countenance and approbation thereof though the sin had not been so hainous if I had so done Dr. Heylin Only I shall make bold to quit my Author with a merry tale though but one for an hundred and 't is a tale of an old jolly popish Priest who having no entertainment for a friend who came to him on a Fasting day but a piece of Pork and making conscience of observing the appointed Fast dipt it into a tub of water saying down Pork up Pike Satisfied with which device as being accustomed to transubstantiate he well might be he caused it to be put into the pot and made ready for dinner But as the Pork for all this suddain piece of wit was no other than Pork so these good fellowes of the Presbytery by laying hands upon one another act as little as he The parties so impos'd upon impos'd upon indeed in the proper notion are but as they were Lay-bretheren of the better stamp Ministers if you will but not Priests nor Deacons nor any wayes Canonically enabled for divine performances Fuller It is not a fortnight since I heard proclamation against the selling of Porke because about London fatted with the flesh of diseased horses I suspect some unwholsomness in the Animadvertors Pork-story especially as applyed and therefore will not meddle therewith Dr. Heylin But fearing to be chidden for his levity I knock off again following my Author as he leaâ—s me who being over shoes will be over boots also He is so lost to the High Royalist and covetous Conformist that he cannot be in a worse case with them than he is already Fuller If I be lost with the high Royalists and covetous Conformists I hope I shall be found by the low Royalists and liberal Conformists However may God be pleased to finde my soul and I pass not with whom I be lost There are a sort of men who with Dr. Manwaring maintain that Kings may impose without Parliaments what taxes they please and the Subjects bound to payment under pain of Damnation a principle introductory to tyranny and slavery These I term high Royalists and I protest my self as to dissent in judgement from them so not to be at all ambitious of their favour Dr. Heylin And therefore having declared himself for a Presbyterian in point of Government he will go thorough with his work c. Fuller Where have I declared my self for a Presbyterian in point of Government who never scattered sylable and if I did I would snatch it up again to countenance such presumption I confess I said That Mr. Travers was made Minister or Priest by the Presbytery at Antwerp that is made Minister so far forth as they could give and he receive the Ministerial Character who never had it otherwise impressed upon him Suppose a Knightâ— Might not a Historian say such a man was made a Knight by such a power of person not engaging himself to justifie his Authority that made him And by the same proportion I relating Mr. Travers made Minister at Antwerp am not concerned to justifie nor by my expression doe I any way approve their Minister-making if they have no Commission thereunto I cannot close with the Animadvertor in his uncharitable censure of the Ministery of forain Protestant Churches rendring them utterly invalid because ordained by no Bishops Cain as commonly believed is conceived to have killed a fourth part of mankinde by murthering Abel but the Animadvertors cruelty to Protestants hath exceeded this proportion in spiritually killing more than
not of the Bishop And though the Tithing-man have some relation to Church-matters and consequently to the Bishop in the way of presentments yet was he noâ— bound to execute any such Commands because not tyed by an Oath of Canonicall Obedience as the Ministers were So that the Bishops did no more than they were commanded in laying the Publication of these Declarations on the backs of the Ministers and the Ministers by doing less than they were required infring'd the Oath which they had taken rendring themselves thereby obnoxious to all such Ecclesiasticall Censures as the Bishops should inflict upon them Fuller I said That there was no Express order in the Declaration that the Minister of the Parish should be pressed to the publishing of it Now the Animadvertor hath done me the favour to prove my words to be true acknowledging the Declaration onely enjoyned That the Bishop of the Diocess should order the publishing thereof through all the Parishes in his Iurisdiction And so consequently as the Animadvertor inferreth the Ministers must do it Hereby the truth of my words do appear that there was no express command seeing an EXPRESS and an INFERENCE are two things of a different nature Whereas I said That many thought it a more proper work for the Constable or Tithing-man then for the Minister There are thousands now alive which will justifie the truth thereof Yea their thoughts which otherwise I confess came not under my cognizance expressed themselves in their words wherewith they affirmed and professed the same Dr. Heylyn It seems that in our Authors judgment it was well done by the Judges for the County of Somerset to impose upon the Ministers of that County over whom they could challenge no authority to publish their own Declarations against Wakes and Feasts and that it was well done of the Ministers to obey the same for which see fol. 147. These Bishops are beholden to him for giving greater power to the Iudges and Iustices over his brethren of the Clergy then he yields to them and as much beholden are the Clergy for putting so many Masters over them instead of a Father The difference of the case will not serve the turn the King having a greater power to indulge such freedom to his Subjects then the others could pretend unto to restrain them from it If he object that the Ministers are most unfit to hold the Candle to lighten and let in licentiousness as he seems to do he must first prove that all or any of the sports allowed of in those Declarations may be brought within the compass of licentiousness which neither the Word of God nor the Canons of the Christian Church nor any Statutes of the Realm had before forbidden Lastly whereas he tells us That because the Iudges had enjoyned the Ministers to read their Order in the Church the Kings Declaration was enforced by the Bishops to be published by them in the same place There is no such matter The Declaration of King Iames appointed to be read and read by order of the Bishop in the Parish Churches doth evince the contrary Fuller I did not say The Judges did well or did ill therein but I said The Judges did order that the Ministers should publish their Declaration against Wakes and Feasts I have not nor can quickly procure a copy of their order whether it were mandatory or by way of advice did desire Ministers to do that which might be advantagious to Religion But I vvill not judge the Iudges but leave them as best skilled in their own faculty to make good their own acts If such Grandees in the Law exceeded their bounds in this their injunction to Ministers over whom they had no command how many mistakes should I run into if once offering to meddle with this matter being out of my profession And therefore no more thereof Dr. Heylyn Now for our Authors better satisfaction in the present point I shall lay down the judgment of one so high in his esteem and once in the esteem of that party too that I conceive he will not offer to gainsay him It is the Author of the Book called the Holy Table Name and Thing vvho resolves it thus All the commands of the King saith he that are not upon the first inference and illation without any Prosyllogisms contrary to a clear passage in the Word of God or to an evident Sun-beam of the Law of Nature are precisely to be obeyed Nor is it enough to find a remote and possible inconvenience that may ensue therefrom which is the ordinary objection against the Book of Recreations for every good subject is bound in conscience to believe and rest assured that his Prince enviâ—oned with such a Councell will be more able to discover and as ready to prevent any ill sequel that may come of it as himself possibly can be And therefore I must not by disobeying my Prince commit a certain sin in preventing a probable but contingent inconveniency This if it were good Doctrine then when both the Author and the Book were cryed up even to admiration is not to be rejected as false Doctrine now truth being constant to it selfe not varying nor altering with the change of times Fuller I want no satisfaction I thank God in the point and therefore the Animadvertor might have spared his pains As an Historian I have truly related de facto what vvas done and though the Animadvertor may conjecture at my judgment in this controversie he cannot be confident thereof by any thing I have vvritten All I will add is this Because I may write the more I will write the lesse of this subject I have good povver to back me for the present in this controversie and might securely express my self therein When my Text shall lead me in my Vocation to treat of the Observation of the Lords Day I shall not be sparing to express my opinion therein and will endeavour God-vvilling to justifie it Mean time I vvill not go out of mine own house which is my castle I mean I will not be drawn out into the open field of a controversie but keep my self under this COVER That matters of fact in this difference have been truly related by me and let the Animadvertor disprove it if he can Dr. Heylyn But our Author will not stop here he goes on and saith Ibid. Many moderate men are of opinion that this abuse of the Lords-day was a principal procurer of Gods anger since poured out on this Land in a long and bloudy Civill war And moderate perhaps they may be in apparell diet and the like civil acts of life and conversation but sure immoderate enough in this Observation For who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath â—een his Counsellor saith the great Apostle But it is as common with some men of the newest Religions to adscribe Gods secret judgements to some speciall Reasons as if they had the Key which opens into his Cabinet at their
lawfull and undoubted Soveraign Liege Lady and Queen Add unto these the Testimony of Sir Edward Cook though a private person who in his Book of the Jurisdiction of Courts published by order of the long Parliament chap. 1. doth exprâ—sly say That the Parliament consists of the Head and Body that the Head is the King that the Body are the three Estates viz. the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons In which words we have not onely the opinion and testimony of that learned Lawyer but the Authority of the long Parliament also though against it selfe Those aged Bishops had been but little studied in their owne concernments and betray'd their Rights if any of them did acknowledge any such mistake in challenging to themselves the name and priviledges of the third Estate Fuller In this long discourse the Animadvertor hath given in the severall Particulars whereof I in my Church-History gave the Totall summe when saying that there were passages in the old Statutes which did countenance the Bishops sitting in Parliament in the Capacity of a THIRD ESTATE I have nothing to returne in Opposition and heartily wish that his Arguments to use the Sea-man's phrase may prove stanche and tight to hold water when some Common-Lawyer shall examine them But seeing the Animadvertor hath with his commendable paines goâ— so farre in this point I could wish he had gon a little further even to answer the two Common Objections against the THIRD-ESTATE SHIP of Bishops The First is this The Bishop not to speak of Bishops Suffragan of the Isle of Man is a Bishop for all purposes and intents of Jurisdiction and ordination yet hath he no place in Parliament because not holding per In egram Baroniam by an Intire Barony Now if Bishops sat in Parliament as a THIRD-ESTATE and not as so many Barons why hath not the Bishop of Man being in the Province of York a place in Parliament as well as the rest Secondly If the Bishops sit as a THIRD-ESTATE then Statutes made without them are manâ— and defective which in law will not be allowed seeing there were some Sessions of Parliament wherein Statutes did passe Excluso Clero at least wise Absente Clero which notwithstanding are acknowledged Obligatory to our Nation I also request him when his Hand is in to satisfie the Objection taken from a passage in the Parliament at Northampton under Henry the Second when the Bishops challenged their Peerage viz. Non sedemus hîc Episcopi sed Barones Nos Barones vos Barones Pares hîc sumus We sit not here as Bishops but as Barons We are Barons You are Barons here we are peers which is much inforced by Anti-Episcopists And whereas the Animadvertor translated it not as Bishops onely it is more then questionable that this interpolation ONLY will not be admitted by such who have a mind curiously to examine the matter I protest my integrity herein that I have not started these Objections of my selfe having had them urged against me and though I can give a bungling Answer unto them I desire that the Animadvertor being better skill'd in Law would be pleased if it ever comes again in his way to returne an Answer as short and clear as the Objections are and I and many more will be bound to returne him thanks Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 196. The Conâ—ocation now not sitting and matters of Religion being brought under the cognizance of the Parliament their Wisdoms adjudged it not onely convenient but necessary that some prime Clergy men might be consulted with It seems then that the setting up of the new Assembly consisting of certain Lords and Gentlemen and two or more Divines out of every County must be ascrib'd to the not sitting of the Convocation Whereas if that had been the reason the Convocation should have been first warned to re-assemble with liberty and safe conducts given them c. Fuller The Animadvertor now enters the list with the WISDOMS in Parliament who are most able to justifie their owne Act. Mean time my folly may stand by in silence unconcerned to return any Answer Dr. Heylyn Fol. 198. It savours something oâ— a Prelaticall Spirit to be offended about Precedency I see our Author is no Changeling Primus ad extremum similis sibi the very same at last as he was at the first Certainly if it savour of a Prelaticall Spirit to contend about Precedencies that Spirit by some â—ythagorean Metempsychosis hath passed into the bodies of the Presbyterians whose pride had swell'd them in conceit above Kings and Princes and thus cometh home to our Author c. Fuller If it cometh home unto me I will endeavour God-willing to thrust it far from me by avoiding the odious sin of Pride And I hope the Presbyterians will herein make a reall and practicall refutation of this note in Evidencing more Humility hereafter seasonably remembring they are grafted on the Stock of the Bishops and are concerned not to be high-minded but feare lest if God spared not Episcopacy for what sins I am not to enquire peaceably possessed above a Thousand years of Power in the Church of England take heed that he spare not Presbytery also which is but a Probationer on its good behaviour especially if by their insolence they offend God and disoblige our Nation the generality whereof is not over-fond of their Goâ—ernment Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 203. We listen not to their fancy who have reckoned the words in the Covenant six hundred sixty six c. I must confesse my selfe not to be so much a Pythagorean as to find Divinity in Numbers nor am taken with such Mysteries as some fancy in them And yet I cannot chuse but say that the Number of Six hundred sixty six words neither more nor less which are found in the Covenant though they conclude nothing yet they signifie something Our Author cannot chuse but know what pains were taken even in the times of Irenaeus to find out Antichrist by this number Some thinking then that they had found it in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with reference to the persecuting Roman Emperours Some Protestants think that they had found it in a Dedication to Pope Paul the fifth which was Paulo V to Vice-Deo the numerall letters whereof that is to say D.C.L.V.V.V.I. amount exactly unto six hundred sixty six which is the Number of the Beast in Revelation The Papists on the other side find it in the name of Luther but in what language or how speld I remember not And therefore whosoever he was which made this Observation upon the Covenant he deserves more to be commended for his wit then condemned for his idlenesse Fuller The Animadvertor might herein have allowed me the Liberty of Preterition a familiar figure in all Authors managed by them with Taceo praetermitto transeo we passe by listen not c. when relating things Either Parva of small moment Nota generally known Ingrata unwelcome to many Readers Under which of
one of my Name printed before I was born and false never by Man or woman retorted on me However if it doth Quit mine He is now but Even with me and hereafter I shall be ABOVE him by forbearing any bitter Return I had rather my Name should make many causelessely merry then any justly sad and seeing it lyeth equally open and obvious to praise and dispraise I shall as little be elated when flattered Fuller of wit and learning as dejected when flouted Fuller of folly and ignorance All this which the Animadvertor hath said on my Name I behold as nothing and as the Anagram of his Name HEYLYN NE HILI NOTHING-worth Dr. Heylyn But my other story is more serious intended for the satisfaction of our Author and the Reader both It was in November Anno 1639. that I receiv'd a message from the Lord Archbishop to attend him the next day at two of the clock in the afternoon The Key being turn'd which opened the way into his Study I found him sitting in a chair holding a paper in both hands and his eyes so fixt upon that paper that he observ'd me not at my coming in Finding him in that posture I thought it fit and manners to retire again But the noise I made by my retreat bringing him back unto himselfe he recall'd me again and told me after some short pawse that he well remembred that he had sent for me but could not tell for his life what it was about After which he was pleas'd to say not without tears standing in his eyes that he had then newly receiv'd a letter acquainting him with a Revolt of a Person of some Quality in North-Wales to the Church of Rome that he knew that the increase of Popery by such frequent Revolts would be imputed unto him and his Brethren the Bishops who were all least guilty of the same that for his part he had done his utmost so far forth as it might consist with the Rules of Prudence and the Preservation of the Church to suppresse that party and to bring the chief sticklers in it to condign punishment to the truth whereof lifting up his wet eyes to Heaven he took God to witnesse conjuring me as I would answer it to God at the day of Judgement that if ever I came to any of those places which he and his Brethren by reason of their great age were not like to hold long I would imploy all such abilities as God had given me in suppressing that party who by their open undertakings and secret practices were like to be the ruine of this flourishing Church After some words of mine upon that occasion I found some argument to divert him from those sad remembrances and having brought him to some reasonable composednesse I took leave for the present and some two or three dayes after waiting on him again he then told me the reason of his sending for me the time before And this I deliver for a truth on the faith of a Christian which I hope will over-ballance any Evidence which hath been brought to prove such Popish inclinations as he stands generally charg'd with in our Author's History Fuller I verily believe all and every one of these Passages to be true and therefore may proceed Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 217. However most apparent it is by many passages in his life that he endeavoured to take up many controversies betwixt us and the Church of Rome And this indeed is Novum Crimen that is to say a crime of a new stamp never coyn'd before Fuller I call it not Novum Crimen which I believe was in him according to his Principles Pium Propositum but let me also add was Frustraneus Conatus and that not onely ex Eventu because it did not but ex Natura Rei because it could not take Effect such the reall Unreconcileablenesse betwixt us and Rome Dr. Heylyn I thought that when our Saviour said Beati Pacifici it had been sufficient warrant unto any man to endeavour Peace to build up the breaches in the Church and to make Ierusalem like a City which is at Unity in it selfe especially where it may be done not onely salva charitate without breach of charity but salâ—â— fide too without wrong to the faith The greatest part of the Controversies betwixt us and the Church of Rome not being in the Fundamentalls or in any Essentiall Points in the Christian Religion I cannot otherwise look upon it but as a most Christian pious work to endeavour an atonement in the Superstructures But hereof our Author seems to doubt first whether such endeavours to agree and compose the differences be lawfull or not and secondly whether they be possible Fuller I confesse Scripture pronounceth the Peace-makers blessed In answer whereunto I will take no notice of Iehu his Tart return to K. Ioram What peace so long as the whoredomes of thy Mother Iezabel and her witchcrafts are so many Rather will I make use of the Calme Counsell of the Apostle If it be POSSIBLE as much as in you lieth live Peaceably with all Men. Which words if it be possible intimate an impossibility of Peace with some Natures in some differences though good men have done what lyeth understand it Lawfully in their power to performe such sometimes the frowardnesse of one though the forwardnesse of the other side to Agreement which is the true state of the Controversie betwixt us and Rome Dr. Heylyn As for the lawfulnesse thereof I could never see any reason produc'd against it nor so much as any question made of it till I found it here Fuller All such zealous Authors who charge the Papists with Idolatry and the Animadvertor knowes well Who they are do question the Lawfulnesse of such an Agreement Dr. Heylyn Against the possibility thereof it hath been objected that such and so great is the pride of the Church of Rome that they will condescend to nothing And therefore if any such composition or agreement be made it must not be by their meeting us but our going to them Fuller I remember some then present have told me of a passage at a disputation in Oxford When Dr. Prideaux pressed home an Argument to which the Answerer returned Reverende Professor memini me legisse hoc ipsissimum Argumentum apud Bellarminum At mi fili returned that Dr. ubi legisti Responsum This Objection the Animadvertor acknowledgeth he hath formerly met with but where did he meet with a satisfactory Answer thereunto Let me add It is not onely the Pride of the Church of Rome which will not let-goe her Power but also her Covetousnesse which will not part with her Profit which obstructeth all accommodation betwixt us And if the Church of Rome would the Court of Rome will not quit the Premises and the latter hath an irresistible influence on the former In this point the Court of Rome is like the Country-man who willingly put his Cause to Arbitration
but on this condition to have all the Land he sued for with the full profits thereof to a minute past and his own costs and charges to a farthing Such and no other agreement will the court of Rome condescend unto Dr. Heylyn But as our Author sayeth that many of the Arch-bishops Equals adjudged that designe of his to be impossible so I may say without making any such odious Comparisons that many of our Author's betters have thought otherwise of it Fuller Amongst which many of his Betters the Animadvertor undoubtedly is one of the Principal Be it so I will endeavour to be as good as I can and will not envy but honour my Betters whose number God increase Sure I am amongst these many of my Betters the difference betwixt us and the Papists is made never a whit the better there remaining still 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and though many may manifest much good wil to advance nothing hath taken Effect to compleate such a composition Dr. Heylyn It was the Petulancy of the Puritans on the one side and the pragmaticalness of 〈◊〉 Jesuits on the other side which made the breach wider than it was at 〈◊〉 first and had these hot Spirits on both sides been charmed a while moderate Men might possibly have agreed on such equal tearms as vvould have laid a sure foundation for the peace of Christendome Fuller Let us behold the Originall breach betvvixt the Church of Rome and Us. I name the Church of Rome first because confident they caused it so that vve may say unto them Pharez The breach be upon them This breach vvas made before either Puritans or Iesuits ever appeared in England As the Animadvertor skill'd in their dates knovveth full vvell It is therefore suspitious that the Wound vvhich vvas made before these parties vvere in being vvill continue if both of them vvere extinct I behold the Colledge of Sorbonists in Paris as far from Jesuitical pragmaticalness and Dr. I. Cosens as one free from puritanical petulancy Yet though the said Doctor hath complyed vvith them so far as he could doe vvith Christian prudence salâ—â conscientiâ And though the Sorbonists are beheld as the most learned and moderate Papists yet I cannot hear of any Accommodation betvvixt them but rather the contrary even in the point of the Apocrypha a controversie so learnedly canvased by the Doctor they being as unvvilling to allovv so few as he so many Books in the Bible to be Canonical And here let me be the Animadvertor's Remembrancer of vvhat perchance he vvould vvillingly forget hovv it vvas not long since he tvvitted me for saying that the difference about the posture of the Communion Table might be accommodated vvith mutual moderation and novv he holdeth By the same means an expedient betvvixt us and the Papists may be advanced Dr. Heylyn Moderate Men might possibly have agreed on such equall termes as would have laid a sure foundation for the Peace of Christendome Fuller My name is Thomas It maketh me the more distrust thereof because I see at this day most cruel Wars betwixt the Crowns of Spain and France both which agree to the heighth in the same Romish Religion I am sorry their differences are paralleled with a sadder instance of the deadly Wars betwixt the Swede and Dane both Lutherans alike And our Sea Wars betwixt us and the Hollander both wel paied for are not yet forgotten All I collect is this that if the agreement betwixt us and Papists were expedited to morrow yet so long as there be severall Greatnesses in Christendome there will be â—â—stlings betwixt them And although they are pleased to score their differences for the greater credit on the account of Conscience and Religion yet what saith St. Iames From whence comes Warres and fightings amongst you Come they not hence even of your Lusts that war in your members And it is a sad truth Such the corruption of the humane Nature that Mens Lives and Lusts will last and end together Dr. Heylyn Now that all these in the Church of Rome are not so stiffely wedded to their own Opinions as our Author makes them appears first by the Testimony of the Archbishop of Spaâ—ato declaring in the high Commission a little before his going hence that He acknowledged the Articles of the Church of England to be true or profitable at the least and none of them Heretical Fuller The Animadvertor hath instanced in an ill Person and in an ill time of the same Person It was just when he was a taking his return to his vomit and to leave the Land When knowing himselfe obnoxious and justly under the lash for his covetous compliance with forreign Invitations of King Iames to get leave to be gone he would say any thing here and unsay it againe elsewhere As little heed is to be given to such a Proteus as hold is to be taken of Him Dr. Heylyn It appears secondly by a Tractate of Franciscus de Sancta Clara as he calleth himself in which he putteth such a Glosse upon the nine and thirty Articles of the Church of England as rendreth them not inconsistent with the Doctrines of the Church of Rome Fuller By that Parenthesis as he calleth himselfe it is left suspitious that his true Name was otherwise And he who would not use his own but a false Name might for ought I know put a false Glosse upon our Articles and though he PUTTETH such a sense upon them it is questionable whether our Articles will accept thereof To PUT something upon sometimes answers to the Latin Word IMPONERE which is to deceive and delude and sometimes is Equivalent to our English Word IMPOSE which soundeth the forceable or fraudulent Obtruding of a thing against the Will and Mind of Him or That whereon it is imposed Lastly the Animadvertor cannot warrant us that the rest of the Church of Rome will consent to the Iudgement of Franciscus de Sancta Clara and if not then is the breach betwixt us left as wide as it was before Dr. Heylyn And if without Prejudice to the Truth the Controversies might have been composed it is most probable that other Protestant Churches would have sued by their Agents to be included in the Peace Fuller The Animadvertor's Prudent and Politick Probability that other Protestant Churches would by their Agents sollicite an Inclusion into such a peace mindeth me of the Distich wrot on the sumptuous Cradle gorgiously trimmed for the Child of Queen Mary by Philip King of Spain Quam Mariae Sobolem Deus Optime Summe dedisti Anglis incolumem redde tuere rege O may the Child to Mary God hath given For ENGLANDS good be guarded safe by Heaven Whereas indeed this Child pretended at White-hall may be said born at Nonsuch proving nothing but a Mock-mother-Tympany I cannot but commend the kindnesse and care of the Animadvertor for keeping this Babe when born I mean the agreement betwixt Us and the Papists But let us behold it born see